This document provides information about the photo haiku collection "The Lady without shoes" by Kuniharu Shimizu, including a copyright certification and details about the author. Shimizu is a Japanese artist born in 1949 who now lives in the US. He has received several artistic and haiku awards. The collection contains photo haiku conceived during a walk in Los Angeles and explores themes of city life through brief, poetic observations.

1. The Lady without shoes
a collection of photo haiku
by Kuniharu Shimizu

2. Copyright Certification
I certify that the attached work is original and not copied in part
or in whole from the work of another unless directly referenced by
quotation with annotated source and/or with permission where
necessary.
This is an original work under my own copyright. No part of this
work (The lady without shoes) may be reproduced in whole or in
part by any means without express written permission from the
author.
Kuniharu Shimizu

3. About the Author
Born in Tenri, Nara, Japan in 1949, Kuniharu Shimizu moved to Hawaii at the age of 15. He returned
to Japan in 1972 upon receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Hawaii.
Kuniharu continues to successfully pursue his creative efforts in the fine arts, which include graphic,
editorial, and monument design as well as exhibition planning.
• Artistic Awards include: The Purchase Award at Artist of Hawaii Exhibition (Purchased for the
permanent collection of the Academy of Art in Honolulu); 1st Place in Ichiretu-kai Scholarship
Foundation Logo Mark Contest; and 1st Place in Japan Toy Association Logo Mark Contest.
• Haiku Awards include: Valentine Awards (2003 and 2004; Special Mention (Heron’s Nest); Second
Prize in "Best of 2003"(Mainichi Daily News); Special Prize at the Mongolian Spring Festival Haiku
Contest in Tokyo, April 2007; and Merit Based Scholarship Publishing through the Cole Foundation
for The Arts in The Baker’s Dozen – Volume III.
In 2000, Kuniharu Shimizu designed and continues to operate the website project See Haiku Here (link
provided below). This is a world wide exhibition of Haiga (illustrated haiku) accomplished through the
collaborative efforts of over 250 international haijin (haiku poets). By the end of 2006 the collections
in this exhibition numbered a total of one thousand.
Kuniharu Shimizu is currently the well-respected advisor to The World Haiku Association and Judge
of the WHA Monthly Haiga Contest.
Websites:
• See Haiku Here Blog http://seehaikuhere.blogspot.com/
• The World Haiku Association http://www.worldhaiku.net/

4. Haiku may be defined as a short Japanese poem (in the neighborhood of 17 syllables spanning one to
three lines) that may embrace humankind, which is part of, rather than separate from, nature. Written
outside of Japan, haiku may also utilize the language tools in which it is written. The term haiku is
both singular and plural.
Haibun is an ancient Japanese poetic form of journaling, which may include waka/tanka, hokku/haiku,
or senryu along with narrative either before, after, or framing inner verse. This is a newly resurrected
form that currently holds no strict rules regarding length or structure of narrative. As with haiku, the
term haibun is both singular and plural.
Haijin is the term used for Japanese poet, or one who writes Japanese poetry (either singular or plural
and either male or female).

5. The Lady without shoes
photo haiku conceived during
LA ginko

14. Security check ―
a lady without shoes
waits for her turn
(LA Airport)
Little Tokyo,
a throng of people lines up
for fallen leaf-like meat
(shabu-shabu restaurant)
Almost admirable ―
sprayed graffiti high above
at an impossible place
Neatly lined teeth
and tanned faces,
sun-kissed people grin